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Swag Bag | noreply@blogger.com (Frau H)

Sometimes the old ideas are good ideas because they work. I have a year 10 GCSE French set, where many have targets of grades 6-7, but I found it difficult to get them out of their comfort zone. So, in October, we started a swag bag. On the middle double-spread in their exercise books, we started assembling useful phrases that would help them to elevate their language. A few weeks ago, we had managed to come up with this:

It’s different to a learning mat, because they are responsible for choosing whether the word or phrase is worthy of inclusion, which means that we have a conversation…